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South Dakota Women, You Ignorant Sluts

...or so Governor Dennis Daugaard seems to be saying by signing HB 1237, the "Women can't think on weekends" law... today... on International Women's Day.

Jennifer Aulwes of Planned Parenthood aptly captures the Governor's and South Dakota's moral failing:

Today Governor Daugaard signed into law a longer waiting period for abortion, once again proving the state’s hostility to women’s health and partiality to Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which are known for misleading and coercing women.

We are very disappointed that the state is further burdening women with medically unnecessary waiting periods for abortion. We will continue to stand with the women of South Dakota and fight for their access to safe and legal abortion, should they need to consider it.

These decisions that women and families are faced with are deeply personal and complex. Politicians have no place interfering with the personal medical decisions of women and families [Jennifer Aulwes, Planned Parenthood MN-ND-SD, press release, 2013.03.08].

Woe unto my wife and daughter, viewed by a patriarchal majority in Pierre as moral incompetents and objects of control.

Ladies, tell me there's some way you could stage a Lysistrata-style boycott to put a stop to South Dakota's legislative abuse of women.

29 Comments

  1. Lorri May 2013.03.08

    "Men say we're slippery rogues--" says Lysistrata. SD women are slippery and roguish in that we insist on being treated like 1st class citizens and not letting old white men make decisions about our bodies. Shame on us. When will we learn that we should walk two steps behind our men and do everything that they dictate we do? (Heavy sarcasm directly indicated.)

  2. Nick Nemec 2013.03.08

    I'm amazed that so called "crisis pregnancy centers" aren't open on weekends and holidays just in case there is.....you know......a crisis.

  3. Joan 2013.03.08

    South Dakota just keeps going backwards.

  4. hmr59 2013.03.08

    And the powers-that-be wonder why young people leave this state as soon as they can...

  5. Charlie Johnson 2013.03.08

    Next session, Rep. Hanson will eliminate Mondays also since women only make 79% of what men make in income.

  6. Jana 2013.03.08

    Well this is a red letter week for South Dakota.

    Governor decides that we should be first in something related to education and decides it should be guns in grade schools!

    Governor signs women are stupid and government supported anti-choice activist crisis centers shouldn't have to be open on weekends act!

    The SD GOP votes down expanding Medicaid. Leaving what amounts to the populations of many of our small towns uninsured that would have also created good paying jobs in the private sector and a lifeline for small town hospitals at the bargain price $1.5M.

    Votes to give $7M of crony contracts to friends, political donors and out of state business owners.

    Votes themselves a $.5 Million dollar raise! You know, the travel increase the voters said no to? Yep, they said kiss our butts to the voters.

  7. Dana P. 2013.03.08

    well, well, well. More shaming of women and making them feel like they are second class citizens in this state. (or are we at the third class stage yet?)

    "Undue Burden" -- "Direct Violation of Women's Constitutional Rights".. Gov Daugaard better really try to understand the meaning of that language. That is directly from a federal judge in Idaho this week, overturning their "20 week" abortion ban.

    If men could get pregnant, this would be a whole 'nuther ball game. But since they can't, keeping women in a subserviant role and dictating what they think is best for women, is the game that is played in this state. Shame.

  8. Linda McIntyre 2013.03.08

    The travel increase that the voters did not approve only applied to ONE trip to and ONE trip from Pierre during session at 5 cents per mile. The rest of the trips are paid at the state rate of 37 cents per mile. So the amount we are talking about is only about $100 per legislator if their round-trip was 300 miles. Take that time 105 legislators and it amounts to $10,500. Of course, this will be higher because some travel farther than 300 miles round trip. All I'm saying is that this cost is nominal compared to the $500,000 they appropriated for themselves.

    If they are going to do more traveling on our dime, they had better be prepared to justify each and every meeting. Did they ever hear of holding meetings via the internet? Would like to listen to the discussion of this on line but haven't found it yet.

  9. Roger Beranek 2013.03.08

    Passing a law banning abortion entirely would be an honest act showing integrity for someone that views the pregnancy as a human being. In fact while I probably wouldn't agree, the point that a person gains the natural rights we all have is an arbitrary faith as nobody sees the human soul. I would rather err on the side of life.
    This law however is a lie. There is no rational reason to put this burden on people other than just to chip away at something they don't like. They are creating a potentially expensive inconvenience to dissuade girls from aborting. If they have the right to abort, who the $*& is he to interfere with it. Its a progressive social manipulation like Blumeberg's stupid laws on drink sizes. The same BS just from the right instead of the left.
    OK dead babies might be a little more important than my 48oz mountain dew, but why can't they get the hell out of our lives?

  10. Bill Dithmer 2013.03.09

    Mind rape

  11. mike 2013.03.09

    Outrageous! Corey I would like you to use your platform as the #1 blog in SD to draft some good state wide candidates. We know SHS, Brendan, Turbak Berry and others are out there. But we don't always know who they are.

    Watching this kind of stuff makes me wonder if there shouldn't be a harder push to encourage certain people to run for office again.

  12. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.03.09

    Mike, I'm happy to encourage any Democrat to get up the gumption to fight the kind of spiteful nonsense the current administration considers good policy.

    Bill: how very apt.

  13. Jana 2013.03.09

    The SD GOP is getting closer and closer to enacting government forced birth on their women folk.

  14. Douglas Wiken 2013.03.09

    Daugaard and SD GOP are all in favor of rapist rights.

  15. Roger Beranek 2013.03.09

    Forced birth? The government neither made anyone pregnant nor grew the fetus into a newborn. The motive to stop abortion has nothing to do with womens rights. Its about the rights of the unborn. That is a legitimate argument to have and both sides need to find way to have it without dismissively name-calling each other rapist or murderer. This is only an easy question for people that have deluded themselves into thinking they know the value of unborn human life.

  16. larry kurtz 2013.03.09

    A foetus has no civil rights until the 24th week of pregnancy, Rog.

  17. Douglas Wiken 2013.03.09

    Republicans think they need to have their hand over every woman's crotch. It is a tough job that nobody needs to do.

  18. Jana 2013.03.09

    Roger, I forgot that the GOP had such a strong grasp or belief in science...

    Sorry, that was rude, but dammit...the right for a woman to have a choice over her reproductive rights is constitutionally protected.

    If the Forced Birthers had the same effort on the gun rights issue, I'm guessing you would be screaming with your hair on fire!

    Double standard...much?

    GOPHers...go figure.

  19. Jana 2013.03.09

    Oh I almost forgot, only legal US fetuses matter...don't give me that BS about the GOP being for the unborn...this is about control and dominance of women.

  20. Dana P. 2013.03.09

    It absolutely is, Jana. And I can't believe that there are some people that aren't seeing that. But a woman's legal right to make choices about her reproductive system is settled law in this country. Period.

    I see no efforts to do anything to help folks prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place. (contraception, birth control, etc - in fact, people don't even like that!)(side note, that would help decrease abortions!!!) Then, I see an all out war against women's rights and don't think she has a right to make her own choices about her own body once she is pregnant. Then, once a child is carried to term and the woman gives birth, the pro-lifers are in the wind!! Poof! Gonzo! In fact, in alot of cases, the shaming starts all over again! "why don't you get a job" "Why are you a single mother" "those people are just mooching off of welfare". Folks sure like to have it all sorts of ways.

    I hear the term Communist thrown around alot when it comes to our President. (and by the way, that is absurd) But when it comes to people wanting to control women's bodies? When it comes to the government interjecting themselves into a medical decision? Now that is what you call Communist!!!! Speaking of that, when you have a chance, check out the history of Romania (Communist country, by the way) who ended up outlawing abortion for a time. It was horrific. Thankfully, women fought back and things are getting a bit better in that regard now. Women already fought this battle in this country. enough is enough.

  21. Roger Beranek 2013.03.10

    Settled law is a way to avoid chaos by being consistent instead of overturning precedent. It has no bearing on if that precedent was right. Personally, I'd rather correct my bad decisions. 27 weeks is one of those arbitrary decisions made by those deluded people I mentioned before. Arbitrary because it is based with some scientific rationale when human rights art not based in science. Some people who believe in science also have faith in something more. For some reason the people with a more narrow, simple, mindset consistently fail to understand that.
    A large number of organizations devote a lot of resources to helping children, including catholic groups. The meme of pro life people not caring once the child is born is a baseless fallacy.
    Me having a soluble standard is also a baseless fallacy. There is no constitutional right to kill, only the right to be secure in your person, including the use of lethal force to protect yourself. Are you now claiming abortion as a means of self-defense :)

  22. Roger Beranek 2013.03.10

    Only legal US fetuses matter? What three heck ate you babbling about? If this was just about dominance of women why aren't there just mobs of men outside the clinics?
    Until you can at least recognize the good motivations in your enemies, you will never understand how they think, or beat them.

  23. Jana 2013.03.10

    Certainly you remember the debate on HB1214.

  24. Douglas Wiken 2013.03.10

    Good motivations can lead to some incredibly stupid ideas.

  25. Anne Beal 2013.03.10

    It takes at least 3 business days for a pregnant woman to (1) figure out abortion kills the wrong person and (2) pass a background check, buy a gun, and kill the right person. Kill the bum, keep the baby!

  26. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.03.10

    ...which comment stunningly ignores the fundamental humanity of the other people whose conscience and reason Jon Hansen and the South Dakota Legislature insult. Shameful, Anne.

  27. walt morrow 2013.06.06

    If this is what it takes to run baby killers out,right on

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